Make Your Own Kombucha

You can make your own Kombucha in a simple way. Try this:

Ingredients
1. Kombu “fungus”.
2. One (1) liter of mineral water.
3. 70 – 100 grams of sugar (10% of water volume).
4. Four (4) sachets of black tea/green tea.

Tools and Equipments
1. Stainless steel bowl
2. Jar
3. Cloth for covering the jar
4. Plastic or glass bottle
5. Funnel

How to Make Kombucha?
1. Boil one (1) liter of water until boiling.
2. After boiling, put four (4) sachets of black tea/green tea.
3. Wait for 15 minutes.
4. Separate the tea sachets from the water.
5. Put 70 – 100 gram of sugar and stir it.
6. Let the tea solvent until it reaches 20 – 25 °C.
7. Put the solvent into a jar made of glass. Don’t use any jar made of other metal.
8. Put the Kombu “fungus” into the jar.
9. Cover the jar with cloth, bundle it using rubber band. When covering the jar, be sure that the covering is tight enough and the air can flow normally into the jar.
10. The fermentation process occurs between 7 – 10 days (depends on the room temperature used to put the jar). The higher the temperature, the faster the process. The ideal room temperature should be on range between 23 – 27 °C. More better if the room is in the dark condition.
11. Don’t move and shake the jar.
12. After tea solvent has reached the right level of acid (pH 3 – 5.5), lift the Kombu “fungus”.
13. Pour the Kombu tea solvent into the glass bottle by using funnel without filtering it. After that, close the bottle tighly.
14. Let the Kombu tea (Kombucha) for five (5) days.
15. After five (5) days, store the Kombucha in refrigerator. Your Kombucha is ready to drink.